NYSTCE Educating All Students (EAS) Pass Rate 2026

Neither the New York State Education Department nor Pearson, which runs the NYSTCE program for the state, publishes a pass rate for the Educating All Students (EAS) test. The official page for field 201 lists the fee, the format, the timing and the passing score, and no candidate performance data of any kind. That gap matters less than the reason nearly every percentage you will find online is wrong anyway: the EAS is reported as a scaled score from 400 to 600 with a Passing Requirement of 520, and a scaled score is not a percentage. The pages telling you that you need "87%" got there by dividing 520 by 600. That arithmetic is meaningless.

How the EAS is actually scored

Here is everything NYSED and Pearson publish about the mechanics of the test.

Official figure	Value
Selected-response items	40
Constructed-response items	3
Selected-response share of total score	70%
Constructed-response share of total score	30%
Testing time	135 minutes (2 hours 15 minutes)
Total appointment time	2 hours 30 minutes
Format	Computer-based test (CBT)
Score scale	400 to 600
Passing Requirement	520
Safety-Net Requirement	500
Test fee	$80
Wait before retaking	30 days

The official score report explainer for the EAS states the process plainly: "The total test score is based on the number of selected-response questions answered correctly and the score(s) on the constructed-response questions on the test." Those two components are then combined and converted. In NYSED's own words, "To achieve consistency in reporting, total test scores are converted to a common scale. These scaled scores range from 400 to 600, with a scaled score of 500 representing the Safety-Net Requirement, and a scaled score of 520 representing the Passing Requirement."

Read that phrase again: "to achieve consistency in reporting." The conversion exists precisely because raw points are not comparable between one version of the test and another. Different forms contain items of different difficulty, so the raw points required to reach 520 shift from form to form. The scaled score is the thing that stays fixed. There is no published raw-to-scaled table, and there could not be one.

This is why 520 cannot be turned into a percentage. The scale runs from 400, not from zero. A candidate who gets nothing right is not reported as 0 — the floor of the reporting scale is 400. A ratio against a scale with no true zero is not a percentage of anything, so 520 divided by 600 has no interpretation. Nor is 520 "52%." It is a position on a 200-point reporting band, and the only fact it encodes is where you landed relative to the standard the Commissioner of Education set.

The item counts reinforce the point: NYSED's test design lists approximate selected-response counts totaling 42, while the current test page lists 40. The denominator is not fixed, so there is nothing stable to compute a percentage against.

Why the figures you find online disagree

Four separate causes, and they compound.

Nobody publishes the number. The NYSTCE test page carries no statistics. The score report documentation explains how to read your own result and reports no aggregate. NYSED's college and university evaluation pages do not publish a per-test EAS rate either. Any figure presented as "the" EAS pass rate is therefore unsourced by construction. If a preparation program quotes you a rate, ask which population it describes — a single institution's completers is not a statewide figure, and a program has every incentive to report its best cohort.

The pass/fail line is genuinely ambiguous. This is the big one, and almost nothing online handles it. The Passing Requirement is 520. But the same official document says: "If your test status is reported as 'Pass,' your total scaled score is 500 or higher. If your test status is reported as 'Did Not Pass,' your total scaled score is below 500." The worked example NYSED prints shows a candidate with a total scaled score of 510 — below the 520 Passing Requirement, above the 500 Safety-Net Requirement — whose reported status is Pass. A pass rate computed at 500 and one computed at 520 are different numbers describing the same candidates. NYSED describes the safety net as "a temporary requirement," and the current test page still links safety-net information for this test, so confirm its status with NYSED before assuming 500 applies to you.

First attempt or eventually? "Candidates who do not pass a test may retake it as often as necessary until a passing score is achieved," subject to a 30-day wait. Attempts are effectively unlimited, so the share who pass on the first try and the share who pass at some point are far apart. A rate that does not specify which one it means conveys nothing.

Scaled scores get converted anyway. Several ranking pages simply divide 520 by 600, publish "you need 86.7%," and then reason backwards to how many of the 40 questions you can miss. Both steps are invalid, and the second is actively harmful — it encourages candidates to treat the three written tasks as optional.

What separates passing from failing candidates

NYSED publishes the weights, and they point at one decision more than any other. From the official test design for field 201:

Competency	Selected-response items (approx.)	SR % of score	Constructed-response items	CR % of score
0001 Diverse Student Populations	11	18%	1	10%
0002 English Language Learners	11	18%	1	10%
0003 Students with Disabilities and Other Special Learning Needs	10	18%	1	10%
0004 Teacher Responsibilities	5	8%	—	—
0005 School-Home Relationships	5	8%	—	—
Total	42	70%	3	30%

Three constructed-response tasks carry 30% of the score. Compare that against NYSED's published time budget for the same 135 minutes: "Each constructed-response item is designed with the expectation of a response up to 10 minutes" and "The selected-response items are designed with the expectation of response time up to 105 minutes." Thirty percent of your result is allocated 30 minutes. That is the densest scoring on the test by a wide margin, and it sits at the end, where candidates who over-deliberated on multiple choice arrive with nothing left. Pacing is the difference-maker here, not knowledge.

The tasks are also less freestanding than candidates expect. NYSED specifies that "Each constructed-response item will share scenario-based stimulus material with several selected-response items," so the written responses attach to a scenario you have already been reading, not to a fresh prompt.

On content, the first three competencies together account for 84% of the score — 18% selected-response plus 10% constructed-response each. Diverse student populations, English Language Learners, and students with disabilities are the test. Teacher Responsibilities and School-Home Relationships share the remaining 16% across ten items. Those two are also the competencies flagged on the score report with an asterisk, where NYSED cautions that the performance indices "are provided as guides only and may not be used as predictors of future performance on these competencies because of the small number of test items."

If you are retaking, read those performance indices rather than inventing a percentage. They are reported as +, ++, +++ and ++++, defined entirely relative to the Passing Requirement: ++ means "just below the level represented by the Passing Requirement," +++ means "just at or above" it. A ++ on Competency 0002 tells you where to spend your 30 days. A made-up percentage tells you nothing.

The bottom line

There is no official NYSTCE Educating All Students pass rate, and there is no honest way to construct one from public data — not least because New York's own documentation reports "Pass" against two different thresholds. What is published is more useful than a rate would be: 520 on a 400-to-600 scale, 40 selected-response items and 3 constructed-response items across 135 minutes, $80, and a 30-day wait between attempts with no cap on how many you take. Treat 520 as a standard set by the state, not as a percentage to reverse-engineer. Then plan around the arithmetic that actually decides outcomes: protect 30 minutes for three written tasks worth 30% of your score, and concentrate study on the three competencies that make up 84% of it.

The most reliable preparation is repeated exposure to the scenario format, since the same stimulus drives both the selected-response items and the written tasks — work through a free NYSTCE Educating All Students practice test and time yourself honestly against the 105-minute and 30-minute split before you sit the real thing.

Official numbers that matter more than an estimated pass rate

The figures below come from the official source documents linked in the table. They are included so you can make study and registration decisions from published requirements rather than an unsupported estimate.

Published detail	Value	Official source
40 selected-response items and 3 constructed-response items	40 items	New York State Education Department / Pearson (National Evaluation Series, NYSTCE program)
Passing Score 520	520	New York State Education Department / Pearson (National Evaluation Series, NYSTCE program)